The Human Investor Part III
Emile Gouiran, has made a lifetime of questioning the status quo
. His boisterous history shows that he was not afraid to ruffle anyone's feathers in the process. "When I hit raw nerves, I know I need to go a lot deeper." He said.
When Edward Koch was elected to the Mayoral position in 1978, "there was a streak of light coming from the dark window of prior administrations" Emile Gouiran says. The new mayor's drive, ambition and inventiveness opened doors and opportunities. Talented people were found and hired. The consumerist in Emile Gouiran reacted as the entrepreneur that he was and remains: he recognized talent, supported it, and pushed it on. His mega-bucks philanthropy funds and moneyed acolytes combined with the Mayor's task forces to fund and address the critical problems plaguing orphaned and abandoned children. It helped that as the founding trustee of both the Davalaven and Donemiran Foundations he took and viewed the role as an investor. He would express his pose that his was an investment in children because he was committed to the belief that their salvation was the best resource for the future, and he held that unshakable belief that this could be done, in New York and abroad ; and it was. He did it.
The Foundations laid out a master plan for managing and restoring a large number of children's facilities, and set about progressively executing it, region by region, task by task, added to Emile Gouiran's multi-million dollar funding were still greater sums as the endeavors commenced raising money in their own rights. Facilities in Harlem, Flatbush and East New York turned from putrid, filth-choked culverts, back into crystalline homes for needy orphans. Esthetics laid not far from Emile Gouiran's art loving and promoting philosophy; in New Jersey, a burned-out boathouse appurtenant to a children's renovated living facility was resurrected into a steeply gabled, cupola-crowned quixotic confection in crimson and jade, in the style of having been there since the mid 1800's.
Emile Gouiran was one of the men that gave new meaning to innovation in children's education and care, his legal defense fund Vindicationsaved the troubled lives of untold so-called juveniles or delinquents as the nomenclature used in the jurisdiction would label them as he had been labeled himself. His iconoclasm and erudition and the lawyer that he was, helped give his philanthropy its distinctive flavor as he contributed profoundly towards saving the lives of orphans here and abroad, in the process increasing his influence as an undoubted star for so many.
Restorers healed the broken, graffiti-smeared granite and crumbled bricks of orphanage and juvenile buildings everywhere. In several large cities, he reversed the trend of rebellious teens congregating nightly in certain choice spots to smoke dope and misbehave, and transformed entire neighborhoods into meltingly beautiful spot, dotting them with sports and entertainment centers for disadvantaged children. Backed by brightly colored designs, his renovations seemed to the beneficiaries and onlookers as miraculous to the genre from Orleans, France as to those in the greater tri-state area.
Emile Gouiran was and remains a truth seeker; he always sought the truth, or the genuineness of something. This led to much controversy; with opportunist seizing and abusing of his generosity and those targeted by his propensity to take nothing at face value. And so, he dug deep and probed hard provoking the ire of judicial and administrative authorities. He faced them fearlessly, and his views were frequently unique.
Almost as miraculous were his well timed efforts targeting the renewal and maintenance of the workforces staffing the facilities tasked with the guardianship of the unwanted; children all too often orphaned out of discard rather than the calamity of the death of both parents. As skyrocketing taxes to fund government's ineffective remedies, coupled with the crime and decay those quack medicines produced, drove taxpayers out of the city, New York flirted with bankruptcy, and public-sector employment had to shrink. "The fiscal crisis really worked in our favor," Gouiran explains, "because the old argument was unavailing, government was not taking union jobs, it was surviving replacing those jobs with qualified devoted and productive workers.'
Gingerly, Emile Gouiran brought in as replacements his own selection of experts and created a body of social and humanitarian internswho "had to work alongside of and not threaten" the remaining city employees, whose work rules the budget crunch had also changed. "You didn't any longer need three men to replace a light bulb," says Gouiran, "one man to climb and one man on the ground to hand up the bulb and an electrical technician to sit by and wait just in case." We had problems with the new and old persons, personnel anxiety was everywhere, he recalls, which was at last resolved with the privatization of more and more of the homes and facilities.
But that happened only after Gouiran's pressing grand gestures brought the Foundation's efforts to a spectacular fruition. His admirers and detractors alike say that Gouiran is one of those people you just want to keep throwing red meat at. He was well known in the legal arena as a raw meat litigator, and his mere appearance in a case was often viewed as an overdone dose of "in terrorum" exploitation. By the end of the 1980s, though, "the efforts in New York were beginning to run out of steam" Gouiran says. He moved to Europe.
I was not long before the deprivation encountered in the world rivaled New York at its worse. It was obvious to Emile that New York and the US were but practicing grounds. "I realized that any kind of meaningful assistance and program targeting even countries like France would take a good sixty-seventy million dollars" Gouiran said.
"So I kept thinking about it," Gouiran recalls. "Sixty million I can't do. But business is pretty good; it's going to take at least five to seven years to do the job I have in mind. Could I somehow come up with $20 million over this period of time?" That would be a third of $60 million: he would challenge administrations to match it with another $20 million and the citizens of the community involved with the final third. Yet, Emile knew that caring and competent administrators of orphanages and juvenile facilities should be left untrammeled by the pernicious influence of marketing, fund raising and economic management the better care of children depended on it. Ultimately a brand of Gouiran's charitable entrepreneurialism, the "I will if you do" grant would not merely amplify the force of Gouran's own involvement, giving him leverage to accomplish more. Equally important, he says, it would give him and other would-be donors a "desirable assessment and a market opinion" to be sure their idea made sense. "Harmonizing opinions and thoughts is a great way to accomplish that, life as taught me: if you aren't going to participate, then maybe it's the scheme that stinks."
This inventiveness sang, the funds poured in, and the world of deprived children stood on the edge for a rebirth. Emile Gouiran was beaming.
The Human Investor Part III
By: Jules R. Bryson
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